Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The Fall Meeting & the Trend to Focus on Aid Rather than Rights

by Nadia Hijab
and Diana Buttu

Institute for Palestine Studies

"The timing and substance of the international meeting called by US President George Bush in his 16 July 2007 speech on the Middle East may end up focusing on aid at the expense of a political solution. This moves further away from the 1991 Madrid international conference and the bilateral Oslo 1993-2000 negotiations and reinforces the trend that was so visible at the 2005 London meeting. This approach has not worked before and is unlikely to work today....."

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